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The Monashee Mountains are a 400 km-long range of varied origin in southern British Columbia.
Geography
To the West, the Monashee Mountains merge with the Okanagan and Shuswap highlands; their eastern boundary is the South-flowing Columbia River. The highest point in the range is 3,375 m.
Etymology and Industry
The name (from the Gaelic monadh-sith, which means “mountain of peace”) was given around 1881 by David McIntyre, a Scottish prospector. The border area around Rossland, Grand Forks and Greenwood was settled in the 1890s and has had prosperous periods of copper mining and smelting.
